Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I have followed the development of Social Actions over the last few years and really believe in the work that Peter, Christine and the community have done to shape a collaborative, open tool that benefits so many people and organizations in all kinds of ways. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. It is named, as of now, Aikido. 4 admin 07.06.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Tim Shih 04.22.08 ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. To vote: 1. Create an account. With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Until a 2020 overhaul of its algorithms, Meta’s content policies for Facebook and Instagram made no distinction between hate content targeting marginalized groups and comments criticizing racist White people.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

Silos Culture Inside the Walls of Nonprofits Prevent Effective Social Media Use - Beth Kanter's post about internal silos in nonprofits reminds me of a post and the ensuing conversation that happened in the comments on my blog about a month ago. open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Last week, the UK-based nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the latest version of their popular Raspberry Pi computer. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Power source. Log in to tell us how you used it in the comments. Power ratings.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. All of this software is free and much of it is open source. Please log in and share with us in the comments. Are you using any data encryption tools?

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

Jim Nickerson responds to the second point in his comment to our blog post. TechSoup, the Council on Foundations, and a coalition of other civil society groups successfully advocated for changes to U.S. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. I love apt-get/aptitude. It’s so incredibly easy. Be Helpful.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top feature: Slack’s foundational feature is channels. Top feature: Take social media interactions a step further with engagement tools , which help you respond to messages from followers, comment on other posts when appropriate, and track engagement over time. This keeps all conversations focused. The professional plan is $24.50/month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. If you are the Luce Foundation Center for American Art , you offer the public the ability to become “citizen curators.” The Luce Foundation Center occupies 20,400 square feet of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. Within in about 5-10 minutes, we had over 100 comments (plus lots of annotations on the photo using the notes feature on Flickr). for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.). Add yourself here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. is an open-source alternative that is based on many of the same. What features are most important in making your selection — price, open-source, cloud-hosted?

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

MacArthur Foundation and Humanity United , held their second Human Rights and Technology conference at the new David Brower Center. Share your thoughts in the comments. Last week in Berkeley, California the Human Rights Center, with the support of sponsors like the John D. & Catherine T. How does security play a role?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! Adin is right: there are challenges to putting the wisdom of crowds to good use for foundations. But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It should also be noted that it is an open-source product, which means that it does not have the same quality assurance as Salesforce proper. The Salesforce Foundation (creators of the NPSP) hosts a couple of online discussion boards ( here and here ) that are very useful. Is your nonprofit using Salesforce?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Opening Hearts and Minds. Beyond (or perhaps more properly, before) the nuts-and-bolts business of making accessible technology and making technology accessible, comes the foundation of embracing why it needs to be prioritized. Let us know in the comments or add to our Accessible Technology and Public Computing Forum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Ken Banks, a Hewlett Foundation grant recipient who focuses on using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly Africa. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Lucy Bernholz , on her Philanthropy 2173 Blog , wrote a post called " Foundations Set Your Content Free where she shares an interesting historical perspective of open sourcing your work. She describes several different systems and share economies. As I responded in the comments, I run across a lot of abuse.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. One tactic is going online. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Moderator Antony Bugg-Levine from the Rockefeller Foundation got a big laugh when he made the usual polite introductions of one panel’s speakers and summarized by saying, “they have an incredible impact on the world… or maybe they don’t”. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Anthony Foundation, which runs the Tenderloin Technology Lab, and Zendesk. Tell us about it in the comments. The app also has a built-in survey tool as another means of collecting data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Each of these sources are fickle. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital communications and fundraising campaigns are built. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. Jon's comments on plone comments. According to the NTEN blog , Salesforce and Salesforce Foundation has released a wiki documenting the nonprofit template. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. As Seth commented, "I can give you a better answer next year for how fabulous this is. Or sail around the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. million nonprofits.

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